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• Spain's Colonial posts 2.38 billion euro loss

  - 2008-09-01

  MADRID AFP — Spanish property group Colonial, struggling under huge debts, announced losses of 2.38 billion euros for the first half of 2008 which it blamed on asset depreciation. Colonial said in an announcement late Sunday that it had reached an agreement in principle to reschedule its debt of...

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• Betis in talks with Zaragoza over Garcia

  - 2008-08-30

  MADRID AFP — Spanish first division side Real Betis are in talks with second-division side Real Zaragoza over striker Sergio Garcia, the club's official radio station reported Saturday. Betis offered Zaragoza eight million euros (11.8 million dollars) plus another 2.5 million euros depending on his performance. "The transfer...

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• Hundreds march in Spain's Basque region for independence

  - 2008-08-22

  MADRID AFP — Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Bilbao, the financial capital of Spain's northern Basque Country, on Friday to demand independence for the wealthy region. Police offered no estimate for the number of participants but the Basque news agency Vasco Press said just over 1,000...

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• Van der Vaart seals Real move

  - 2008-08-04

  BERLIN AFP — Dutch international midfielder Rafael van der Vaart confirmed Monday he has sealed a move to Spanish giants Real Madrid. "Last night everything came together, and I am now moving to Real Madrid," the 25-year-old Hamburg captain announced on his website. According to reports the playmaker...

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• Spain's economy 'worse' than predicted: minister

  - 2008-08-03

  MADRID AFP — Spain's economy is in a worse state than the government had predicted but is still unlikely to slip into a recession, Economy Minister Pedro Solbes said in an interview published Sunday. "For the past two months there have been radically different data, such as the rise...

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• Top-selling Spanish cookbook author Simone Ortega dead at 89

  - 2008-07-02

  MADRID AFP — Top-selling Spanish cookbook author and chef Simone Ortega, who won top culinary awards in both France and Spain, has died, her publisher said Wednesday. She was 89. Publishing company Alianza Editorial said Ortega died overnight at a nursing home in Madrid. It did not know the...

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• Torres steps out from under Villa's shadow

  - 2008-06-29

  VIENNA AFP — Fernando Torres showed that anything his fellow striker David Villa can do he can do too with the precious goal that gave Spain victory over Germany in Sunday's Euro 2008 final. Villa had stolen most of the limelight away from the Liverpool forward at Euro 2008...

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• Iberdrola drops any plan to bid for British Energy

  - 2008-06-12

  MADRID AFP — Spanish electricity generator Iberdrola said on Thursday that it was abandoning any thought of bidding for British energy and nuclear group British Energy. A spokesman for Iberdrola said that the chairman of the company, the second-biggest electricity group in Spain, Ignacio Galan, had made a statement...

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• European fishermen take protest to Brussels

  - 2008-06-03

  BRUSSELS AFP — Angry fishermen take their protest over soaring fuel costs to Brussels on Wednesday where several thousand are set to picket the European Parliament, fisheries representatives in four countries said. Several thousand fishermen from Portugal, Italy, Spain and France were on their way to the Belgian capital...

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• Spain's Zapatero calls for cross-party anti-terrorist strategy

  - 2008-04-08

  MADRID AFP — Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in his first speech to parliament since winning re-election, Tuesday called for a cross-party strategy to fight the armed Basque separatist group ETA. ETA is "weaker than ever" and "we are closer than ever to the end of ETA...

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